The Inyo County coroner’s office, determined the climber to be Winston Chu, 49, of Santa Clara, California, according to the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office.
A climber survived a 500-foot fall near Mount Baxter in California's Sierra Nevada and spent a freezing night stranded on a ledge before a CHP helicopter rescue.
Will Stanhope was widely known as a free solo climber and was a member of the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides. He was scaling Rutabaga at the time of his fall.